{"id":33034,"date":"2012-06-13T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/why_one_episcopal_rector_canceled_all_her_adult_education_opportunities_and\/"},"modified":"2012-06-13T18:00:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T18:00:34","slug":"why_one_episcopal_rector_canceled_all_her_adult_education_opportunities_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33034","title":{"rendered":"Why one Episcopal Rector canceled all her adult education opportunities and midweek services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the idea of having leisurely conversations about Jesus is just, well, too slow. The only adult formation things that have been in any way successful are sermon podcasts and daily e-mailed bits of wisdom, prayer or scripture.<\/p>\n<p>A mentor once gave me some good advice: stop doing things that aren\u2019t working. This makes all the sense in the world, but it\u2019s hard to do. It is hard to give up the picture I have in my head about what a church is supposed to look like: people sitting around on couches in the parish hall, Bibles open.<\/p>\n<p>But at least in my ministry context, that just isn\u2019t working anymore. And personally, I\u2019m done with the roller coaster of getting seduced by the latest thing that\u2019s supposed to work, putting mountains of energy into making it really good and then getting cranky with people because they don\u2019t come. So we stopped it all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/2012-05\/just-isn-t-working\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the idea of having leisurely conversations about Jesus is just, well, too slow. The only adult formation things that have been in any way successful are sermon podcasts and daily e-mailed bits of wisdom, prayer or scripture. A mentor once<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33034\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,40,434,582,149,66,435,184,108,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-adult-education","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}